Rolfe: Your Honor, it is my
duty to defend Ernst Janning, and yet Ernst Janning has said he is
guilty. There's no doubt, he feels his guilt. He made a great error in
going along with the Nazi movement, hoping it would be good for his
country. But, if he is to be found guilty, there are others who also went
along, who also must be found guilty.

Ernst Janning said, "We succeeded
beyond our wildest dreams." Why did we succeed, Your Honor? What about the
rest of the world? Did it not know the intentions of the Third Reich? Did
it not hear the words of Hitler's broadcast all over the world? Did it not
read his intentions in
Mein Kampf, published in every corner of the world?

Where's the responsibility of the
Soviet Union, who signed in 1939 the pact with Hitler, enabled him to make
war? Are we not to find Russia guilty?

Where's the responsibility of the
Vatican, who signed in
1933 the Concordat with Hitler, giving him his
first tremendous prestige? Are we not to find the Vatican guilty?

Where's the responsibility of the
world leader, Winston Churchill, who said in an open letter to the London
Times in 1938 -- 1938!! Your Honor -- "were England to suffer national
disaster should pray to God to send a man of the strength of mind and will
of an Adolf Hitler!" Are we not to find Winston Churchill guilty?

Where is the responsibility of those
American industrialists, who helped Hitler to rebuild his armaments and
profited by that rebuilding?!! Are we not to find the American
industrialists guilty?

No, Your Honor. No! Germany alone is
not guilty: The whole world is as responsible for Hitler's Germany.

It is an easy thing to condemn one man
in the dock. It is easy to condemn the German people to speak of the basic
flaw in the German character that allowed Hitler to rise to power and at
the same time positively ignore the basic flaw of character that made the
Russians sign pacts with him, Winston Churchill praise him, American
industrialists profit by him!!

Ernst Janning said he is guilty. If
he is, Ernst Janning's guilt is the world's guilt -- no more and no less.